Brahms

English edit

Etymology edit

Shortened from the rhyming slang Brahms and Liszt for "pissed".

Adjective edit

Brahms (comparative more Brahms, superlative most Brahms)

(Cockney rhyming slang) Pissed, drunk.
- 2010, Luke James, Stairway to Nowhere, page 39:
  Now if we can all avoid getting Brahms at lunchtime, we'll be fine. Actually that is proving less of a problem the more we gig. No one drinks, snorts or smokes anything (other than fags) before shows.

Synonyms edit

See Thesaurus:drunk

German edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /bʁaːms/

Proper noun edit

Brahms m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Brahms' or (with an article) Brahms, feminine genitive Brahms, plural Brahms or Brahmsens)

a surname, notably of Johannes Brahms, a 19th century German composer